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nishnishant

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  1. I agree the pricing is steep. Funnily enough, the lens is 1050-ish but if you buy the D7500 with this lens, it's 1400. You get the 7500 for an extra 350 bucks when the camera body sells for 750. I guess if you are adventurous enough, you could buy the kit, then sell the body for say 600 and save an extra 250 on the lens. I just don't want to bother with the hassle myself.
  2. Yeah it's better stiff than if it's too loose :-)
  3. Thank you, glad to hear it's not an anomaly on my piece :-)
  4. Other 16-80 owners : do you find the zoom ring stiffer compared to other zooms like the 18-105? (it's not too bad but it's noticeable, hoping it'll get better with time)
  5. Hey John, while VR and the additional range on both ends were important, weight was also a factor. And while I know some of this is subjective, quite a few folks said sharpness is comparable between the two lenses. Thanks.
  6. Just an update for everyone who responded to my original query, I got the 16-80 f/2.8 (arrived today). Took a few test shots and now need to transfer it to see how they came out - looked good on the camera preview. One thing I noticed is that the zoom ring is a little stiff in the middle (as it crosses the 35-40 mm point). Is that normal? Will it get better with time? Thank you.
  7. Thank you - appreciate the info. And also for correcting my incorrect assumptions about the max aperture at various focal lengths for the 16-80.
  8. The 17-55 is $430 more expensive, and offers constant f/2.8. But the 16-80 offers a more flexible focal range, has VR, and is f/2.8 from 16-40 (someone correct me if I am wrong here). So the relative loss will be the f/4 aperture from the 41-55 range (compared to the 17-55). The camera body I have is 7100. I can't get them both, so looking to buy one of the two. Looking for recommendations from folks who have used both lenses on a 7000-series camera. Thank you.
  9. The more I test the less consistent are my results. The 7100+Nikon lens and 80+Tamron lens seem to be a combination that's giving me expected results. The 7100+Tamron is also not giving me really obvious focusing issues in my tests today, but I was testing in very good outside light. More baffling is that when I stopped down from f/2.8 to f/8 it seems to get softer. Does having a hood (when there's sunlight) have any impact at all on any of this? (sorry, now I am clutching at straws here trying to figure out what's going on)
  10. Thank you. I only want to send it to Tamron as a last resort. If I can resolve this on my own, that'd be splendid. I am doing more tests today. The D80 with the Tamron lens does not really seem to have any focus issues at f/2.8. But then the images are lower res in the D80 so it's not an exact comparison with the 7100. Also the 7100 with the Nikon 18-105 seems to be focusing well too. I am not sure what I can do if the problem is specifically with the 7100 using the Tamron. Neither Tamron nor Nikon will want to help me resolve that.
  11. Yeah, the f/1.4 helped to isolate out the focus point difference pretty well. Also I assume not all cameras (even same model) have the same AF fine tune behavior either.
  12. Awesome - thank you, Matthew. I did not see that much of a difference, but I was shooting at f/2.8.
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